New Releases 2/9/18

Sale priced items

  • Mgmt Little Dark Age cd $12.49 vinyl $32.38
  • The Wombats Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life  cd $12.49 vinyl $21.58
  • Soundtrack Fifty Shades Freed cd $13.49
  • Franz Ferdinand Always Ascending cd $12.49 vinyl $22.48
  • Palm Rock Island cd $12.49 vinyl $14.38
  • Wild Child Expectations cd $12.49 vinyl $23.38
  • Wade Bowen Solid Ground cd $11.99
  • Brian Fallon Sleepwalkers cd $13.49 vinyl $21.68
  • Ezra Furman Transangelic Exodus cd $16.49 vinyl $27.88
  • Joan As Police Woman Damned Devotion cd $16.49 vinyl $27.88
  • Melody Gardot Live In Europe cd $18.49 vinyl $44.98
  • Good Tiger We Will All Be Gone cd $12.49 vinyl $25.18
  • Harms Way Posthuman cd $12.49 vinyl $25.18
  • Insane Warrior(RJD2) cd $12.99
  • Black Panther Music from & inspired from film cd $14.99

 

Other titles:

Rock/Pop

  • Twin Peaks Sweet ’17 Singles vinyl
  • Mark D
  • Soft Moon cd/vinyl
  • Robert Plant live DVD
  • Chris Hillman compilation cd
  • Dashboard Confessional cd/vinyl
  • Ramones reissue vinyl (3 titles)
  • Offspring reissue vinyl
  • Shovels & Rope compilation vinyl
  • Insects VS Robots vinyl
  • Fu Manchu vinyl
  • Screeching Weasel reissue vinyl

Jazz/Blues

  • Nina Simone compilation cd/vinyl
  • Dr John reissue vinyl
  • Jamie Saft cd

Hip-Hop/Soul

  • Insane Warrior(RJD2) vinyl

Folk/Country/Bluegrass

  • Brigid Mae Power vinyl

Soundtracks

  • Jonny Greenwood Phantom Thread cd
  • Danny Elfman DC Justice League vinyl
  • Johann Johannsson The Mercy vinyl
  • Jed Kurzel Babadook vinyl

Experimental/Electronic

  • Gogo Penguin cd/vinyl

Reggae/World

  • Natalia Lafourcade cd
  • Bobby Digital vinyl reissue
  • Lloyd Parks vinyl reissue

 

 

Vinyl New Arrivals 1/13/2017

The XX I See You (indie exclusive clear vinyl) review spotify

Run the Jewels 3 Gold Vinyl  review  spotify

Flaming Lips  Oczy Mlody Purple/Orange vinyl  review  spotify

Bonobo  Migration  Deluxe Double Vinyl  review  spotify

Lady Lamb  Tender Warriors Club  review  spotify

Killers  Hot Fuss

Winged Victory For the Sullen  Iris Soundtrack review  spotify

Tokyo Police Club Melon Collie & the Infinite Radness  review  spotify

Sohn  Rennen review  spotify

Flo Morrissey/Matthew E. White Gentlewoman, Ruby Man  spotify  review

Clint Mansell  The Fountain soundtrack

Jerry Goldsmith  Gremlins soundtrack

Blasting Company Over the Garden Wall soundtrack

Tom Chaplin  Wave  review  spotify

Code Orange  Forever review  spotify

The Drip  Haunting Fear of Inevitability  review  spotify

Black Anvil  As Was  review  spotify

Madness  Can’t Touch Us Now  review  spotify

Chavez  Cockfighters  review  spotify

Chemical  Brothers  reissues:

Come With Us (solid red vinyl)

Dig Your Own Hole (solid white vinyl)

Exit Planet Dust (clear vinyl)

Further (transparent green vinyl)

Push The Button (transparent blue vinyl)

Surrender (solid blue vinyl)

We Are the Night (coke bottle clear vinyl)

Vinyl New Arrivals 1/10/2017

Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right has some selected special edition re-issues

Get Free Calendar with purchase of these titles

John Prine  John Prine

Lil’Kim  Hard Core

Soundtrack Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Psychedelic Splatter colored vinyl

Hootie & the Blowfish Cracked Rear View Yellow/Black swirl colored vinyl

 

Vinyl New Arrivals 1/6/2017

New Releases

Dropkick Murphys 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory Spotify Review

Gone is Gone Echolocation Spotify Review

Kat Wright By My Side Spotify

Apartment 3 Apartment 3 Facebook Soundcloud

Honus Honus Use Your Delusion Spotify Review

Neil Young Peace Trail Spotify  Review

Re-issues

KD Lang Shadowland

Rolling Stones In Mono 16 lp box

Destroyer 666 Defiance

Misery Index Killing Gods

Sam Cooke One Night Stand! Live the Harlem Square Club

 

 

 

 

Enter Your Top 5 Favorites of 2016!

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Music hounds! It’s that time of year once again, when we pore over the phenomenal releases or reissues of 2016 (and there were LOTS) to select le creme de la creme.

Enter your top five favorite records with some brief descriptions, and we’ll post your musings here. Let us know about your favorite tracks also for inclusion in what’s sure to be the Awesomist Playlist Of All Time. 2016 itself may not have felt like halcyon days, but the recordings have been undoubtedly wondrous.

Entrants will also be entered for a randomly selected drawing for a Pure Pop gift certificate, so get on that keyboard clackity clack! Submit to mike@purepoponline to share your magic.

Can’t wait to hear from you!

-Your Friends at Pure Pop

Black Friday/Record Store Day 2018

Still plenty of exclusive limited titles are available including the Phish title.  Contact us thru the website album request to inquire about availability of titles and/or purchasing online thru paypal.

Record Store Day/Black Friday is November 23

Check out twitter starting Wednesday morning, #RSDPurePop, for pricing/quantity questions.  Will start pricing stuff at 9am on Wednesday, will try to check in every hour or so.

What goes on at Black Friday/RSD at Pure Pop?

First, there are many exclusive/limited releases, for more info you can check out recordstoreday.com

Second, there is a sale on all other items in the store

10% off new vinyl/new books

15% off used vinyl/new cds/tapes/dvds/etc

20% off used cds/dvd/tapes

So how do I get my hands on my favorite RSD release?

Well, there will be a line. It won’t be as big as the main RSD in April but there is a Phish title, so expect some people. Below is a general explanation of how the day will work.

Pure Pop opens at 10am on Friday the 23rd. We will be collecting wish lists at 9am sharp – make sure to get yours in by then! If there are only a couple of releases you really want, we DO NOT recommend trying to be the first in line – it won’t make a difference if you fill out a wish list. As long as you’re here no later than 8:55am with your wishlist, you have just as much a chance as anyone else to get the one or two releases that you want. If you want 7 things really, really badly, then we suggest getting to Pure Pop early so you can be the first in line to get in. There is usually already a small line around 6:30am or so. Besides the two items on your wishlist, everything else is first come, first serve. WE DO NOT DO PRE-ORDERS OR HOLDS PRIOR TO RSD titles. This is just general nationwide RSD policy.

So, what’s a wish list? In order for us to try to get you the release you want, we have a “wish list” – you fill out up to 8 releases that you want in order of how much you want them (1 being: you’d kill to get it, 8 being: you wouldn’t be torn up if you missed it). We collect the wish lists at 9am sharp and shuffle them. Starting from the random wish list on the top of the pile, we pick out the top 2 items you wrote down that are available and hold it for you, so you’re guaranteed to get at least something on your list. BUT we cannot guarantee everyone will get their #1 and #2 choices. We have a very limited supply of RSD releases! As we go through the lists and things sell out, we move on to the #3, #4, #5 choices and so on.

Here’s an example of how the wish list works: Say we get 10 copies of the Grateful Dead vinyl. Johnny’s wish list is 20th in the pile of randomly shuffled lists and the Grateful Dead vinyl is at the top of his list. Before we get to Johnny’s list however, ten other people had the Grateful Dead on their top 2 and we put them aside for those lucky people, so we are now sold out of the Grateful Dead. Sorry Johnny, but we’ll have to move on to your number 2 and 3 on the list instead. Even though Johnny didn’t get his number 1 pick, at least he got his 2nd and 3rd! and since it was really up to pure chance, he’s not too bummed and didn’t waste time by lining up outside the store at 3am.

 

Printable wishlist here

Pure Pop tries to get as many titles as possible, but we cannot guarantee any title will be here until it arrives. We will have most of the official RSD titles when we open at 10am. Feel free to contact us about a specific item or any other issue by calling 802-658-2652 or email [email protected], twitter #RSDPurePop

See you on Friday at 9am!!!

Pure Pop YearEnders: Ryan Leamy

I found this year to be dominated by just a few albums, with very little new stuff in the mix. Despite this though, the three new artists I picked up this year made my top five list. I’m excited for next year – the return of Thrice is enough to make the entire year in music a plus! – and hopeful for some new acts revitalizing rock music.

Pure Pop YearEnders: Brendan Meryman

Hi. I’m Brendan. I fix bicycles. Here are my closing thoughts:

There was a lot of good music this year. Kurt Vile and Leon Bridges didn’t make my top five probably because I simply didn’t listen to their albums enough. Both of their albums were fantastic and deserve a lot more attention. Listen to music, have fun, and don’t forget to smile at strangers.

Pure Pop YearEnders: Mason Dixon

Thanks for reading. There was a lot of good music this year. Check out my Best of 2015 playlist if you have Spotify.

Other albums I liked:

Bedroom Eyes – Honeysuckle
Infinity Girl – Harm
Cheatahs – Mythologies
Wavves/Cloud Nothings – No Life for Me
Turnover – Peripheral Vision